EP0720321B1 - Vielfach-Zugriff in einem zellularem Kommunikationssystem mit kreisförmiger Verschachtelung und mit reduzierter Länge von Verlustpaketen - Google Patents

Vielfach-Zugriff in einem zellularem Kommunikationssystem mit kreisförmiger Verschachtelung und mit reduzierter Länge von Verlustpaketen Download PDF

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EP0720321B1
EP0720321B1 EP95308947A EP95308947A EP0720321B1 EP 0720321 B1 EP0720321 B1 EP 0720321B1 EP 95308947 A EP95308947 A EP 95308947A EP 95308947 A EP95308947 A EP 95308947A EP 0720321 B1 EP0720321 B1 EP 0720321B1
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  • This invention relates to methods and apparatus for allocating uplink and downlink slots in a communication system, and to communication systems.
  • the design of a communication network or system involves evaluating physical constraints, for example, the characteristics of a given communication channel, and system constraints, for example, the available bandwidth per channel, in order to achieve a network with desired performance characteristics, such as reliability of the information received.
  • Physical constraints for example, the characteristics of a given communication channel
  • system constraints for example, the available bandwidth per channel
  • TDMA time-division multiple access
  • FDD frequency-division duplexing
  • pan-European GSM pan-European GSM system
  • North American IS-54 North American IS-54
  • TDMA/TDD time-division duplexing
  • DECT Digital European Cordless Telecommunications
  • frames of time are the basic transmission unit. Each frame is divided into a plurality of slots of time. Some slots are used for control purposes and some slots are used for information transfer as described below. The information is transmitted during slots in the frame where slots are assigned to a specific user.
  • information refers to data representing speech, text, video or other digital information.
  • PRMA Packet Reservation Multiple Access
  • R-ALOHA Reservation ALOHA
  • PRMA radio access technology
  • PRMA techniques rely on actual speech transmission, that is, the user must be actively speaking, to allocate slots instead of relying on a separate control mechanism for allocating slots. This assignment method leads to collisions between packets of data and thus increases delay and reduces throughput.
  • Other systems recognize that in a two-way conversation, it often occurs that only one user is active, thereby making it possible to obtain a high statistical multiplexing gain even with a low number of users when information from both conversation paths are multiplexed onto a common channel. See L. M. Paratz and E. V.
  • US-A-4949395 relates to a cellular mobile radio station having cells including a base station, a plurality of mobile stations and radio channels.
  • the connections share the available time slots in accordance with a determined multiframe time slot allocation scheme known to the base station and the mobile stations.
  • a multiple access technique is described in which slots are dynamically allocated between uplink and downlink users.
  • U s and D s are varied dynamically in such a way as to improve overall system quality and capacity.
  • Another aspect of the invention involves reducing the runlengths of dropped packets in a TDMA/TDD/SAD or TDMA/STDD system.
  • packet-dropping events are often strongly correlated such that a particular user may experience a dropped-packet runlength corresponding to several frames or more.
  • the packet dropping may result from, for example, use of a statistical multiplexing technique such as speech activity detection of the slow type (SAD), the fast type (FSAD), or of any other type, or from co-channel interference (CCI).
  • SAD speech activity detection of the slow type
  • FSAD fast type
  • CCI co-channel interference
  • the present invention utilizes, for example, circular interleaving to spread the dropped packets over many system users such that a given user will not experience an excessive runlength of dropped packets, and thus provides a more robust and higher quality communication system.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates the components of a cellular or microcellular communications network.
  • Cell 102 represents a portion of the geographic area served by the system.
  • Base station 105 which is connected to the public telephone network.
  • the wireless link between any given user pair, 110-i and base station 105 is comprised of an uplink U i for transmitting information from a user to base station 105 and then to the telephone network and of a downlink D i for transmitting information received by the base station from the telephone network to the user.
  • Bandwidth resource concerns may be addressed through proper design of a multiple access technique.
  • the goal of a multiple access technique is to regulate communications for the various user pairs within a cell given a limited number of available frequencies, limited bandwidth per channel, etc. More particularly, proper design of a multiple access system is important in configuring a low delay, high quality digital communication network. See generally, C-E. W. Sundberg and N. Seshadri, "Digital Cellular Systems for North America," GLOBECOM '90, Vol. 1, pp. 533-537, San Diego, CA, Dec. 1990 .
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the principle of TDMA/TDD for purposes of comparison with other systems.
  • standard TDMA/TDD has control information integrated into the headers of information sent in transmitted information slots, for illustrative purposes, frame 201 is divided into three sections all of which are transmitted in the same frequency band.
  • Control section 205 contains information which relates to calL management.
  • Uplink section 210 and downlink section 215 are each divided into N slots.
  • the uplink and downlink for each user pair can have a guaranteed slot for transmitting information.
  • the system capacity is low since a slot is assigned to each user and no re-allocation of slots is performed if a user decides not to utilize (that is, transmit information during) an assigned slot.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the format of TDMA/TDD/SAD frame 301 designed for use by up to N user pairs.
  • TDMA/TDD/SAD frame 301 is divided into four sections.
  • Uplink and downlink control sections 305 and 307 contain bits for handling call management functions.
  • Uplink control section 305 contains bits for handling requests for uplink information slots.
  • Downlink control section 307 contains bits which indicate which uplink and downlink information slots are assigned for the uplink and downlink users to send and receive information.
  • Uplink section 310 and downlink section 315 are also divided into slots. There are an identical number of slots, fewer than N, in each of the uplink and downlink sections.
  • the SAD techniques recognize that a significant portion of any information transfer, particularly a speech conversation, is comprised of silent portions, and no transmission of information need occur, that is, although N user pairs are active and wish to transmit information at some point, chances are that not all users are using their allocated slots 100% of the time.
  • the number of slots required to satisfactorily accommodate up to N user pairs can be significantly reduced through ongoing reassignment of slots from inactive to active users.
  • the result is a higher capacity (since there will be a reduced number of slots transmitting no information) and lower delay (since the frames can be made shorter given the reduced number of slots) system.
  • the system typically requires a greater portion of the frame be devoted to overhead (that is, the control sections). Additionally, there will be insufficient resources to accommodate all users in times of peak demand, and thus some information will be lost because no slots will be available for data transmission and/or new user pairs will not be allowed access to the system.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates a format for frame 401 useful in practicing the invention.
  • the invention a multiple access system termed Shared Time-Division Duplexing (STDD), is designed to regulate traffic among up to N user pairs while allocating slots between uplinks and downlinks dynamically, for example, on a frame-by-frame basis.
  • Frame 401 is divided into four sections. Call management functions are handled by separate uplink and downlink slots in uplink control section 405 and downlink control section 407, respectively, as described below.
  • A represents the number of slots, if any, not allocated.
  • the number of slots allocated between uplink section 410 and downlink section 415 can vary with each frame as indicated by partition 412. However, the total number of speech slots S remains fixed for every frame. When there are a few users in the system and the total number of slots in any one direction is less than S/2, the information slots behave in a TDD manner with the S slots equally partitioned for the uplink and downlink access. When the number of users increases and the number of required speech slots in either direction exceeds S/2, partition 412 between the uplink and downlink slots varies according to demand. The ability to share a common frequency band contributes to a higher statistical multiplexing gain even for a narrowband system with a limited number of users.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart of the steps in allocating slots. Note that all signalling functions pertaining to call management in a cellular or microcellular system, including handoffs and termination, but typically not call set up functions, are communicated via information in the control sections. In addition, the control information also indicate the state of a transmission, that is, whether a user is actively communicating information or is silent. When a user desires to send information and enters the active state in step 502, as for example when speaking, status information in the control slot assigned to the user requests a slot in the appropriate, that is, uplink or downlink, information section from the base station as shown in step 504.
  • FIFO first-in, first-out
  • the base station is aware of all slot requests emanating from the wired end of the network, and it assigns slots accordingly in step 506.
  • the slot assignment information is carried in the downlink control information slots for both uplink and downlink users.
  • the status information is reset in step 508 and the slot is returned to a pool of unused slots in step 510.
  • the amount of control information is dictated by the needs of call management functions and the frequency of transmission activity.
  • Uplink control section 405 and downlink control section 407 may each contain N control slots.
  • the overhead per frame can be reduced by establishing a duty cycle for the control information. For example, let the total number of control slots be 2C, where C is the number of uplink or downlink control slots, and let N (N being a multiple of C) be the maximum number of user pairs that can be supported. In general, C ⁇ N, and hence only C user pairs can communicate their control information to and from the base station in one frame period.
  • K N/C frame periods for all user pairs to be serviced this way, that is, K is the duty cycle to service all users.
  • This access mechanism ensures that all users are guaranteed service within K frame periods.
  • a user with an acknowledged reservation can immediately send his speech packets within the same frame.
  • the duty cycle is 8 with a cycle period of 16 ms.
  • the larger the duty cycle the smaller the amount of control overhead information.
  • a suitable cycle period is 16 ms where it is conveniently synchronized to the speech activity detection rate.
  • This spare capacity can be used for call setup when a new call arrives into the system. Assume that a new user monitors the control slots for a minimum of one cycle period to ascertain the status of the information slots, that is, to determine if all slots have been assigned. Thereafter, the system can use the spare information slots as a contention channel to inform the base station of this setup request by using, for example, an ALOHA-type of random access. If there are a number of available slots A, where A is less than S, the new call randomly selects one of these A slots to transmit its setup request packet. This request successfully reaches the base station if no other user transmits in the same slot.
  • the new call will be successfully serviced and an acknowledgment is sent on the next available downlink control slot.
  • the location of this control slot also determines the new call's position in the control cycle stream.
  • STDD behaves as a TDMA/TDD/SAD system with slots equally allocated between the uplink and downlink.
  • spare information slots used to set up a call should be treated as information slots so that slots remain equally allocated until such time that conditions demand that the partition between uplink and downlink slots be moved.
  • the system above is described for up to N user pairs per carrier frequency. A number of carrier frequencies, each carrying up to N user pairs, can be used in high traffic areas.
  • STDD can be used for mixed traffic conditions, for example, where some slots carry data and some carry speech.
  • STDD can also be implemented in a variable rate per user mode, for example, a variable speech quality mode where a larger number of bits are allocated to customers requiring video or higher quality audio.
  • the control channel contains the appropriate information.
  • the dynamic allocation of slots between the uplink and downlink based on demand is implemented by means of frequency division where information is carried over dynamically allocated orthogonal frequency channels, or alternatively in a code division mode where traffic is carried by means of direct sequence spread spectrum with pseudo-orthogonal codes or in combinations of time division, frequency division and code division techniques.
  • the STDD format can be used in conjunction with a pseudo-analog skewed DPSK modulation technique to further reduce throughput delay in a communications system. Additional detail regarding pseudo-analog skewed DPSK modulation may be found in, for example, the above-cited article by T. Miki et al. entitled "Pseudo-Analog Speech Transmission in Mobile Radio Communication Systems.”
  • an STDD technique allows time slots to be dynamically allocated to either uplink or downlink depending on demand.
  • a user in a given cell may therefore be transmitting information in an uplink slot at the same time that a base station in a neighboring FR cell is transmitting in a downlink slot to another user.
  • Signals transmitted from a base station are often at a significantly higher power level than signals transmitted from a mobile user, and a downlink signal transmitted in the neighboring FR cell may therefore interfere with reception of an uplink signal in the given cell.
  • this type of CCI involves a downlink signal interfering with reception of an uplink signal, it is referred to herein as "mixed” CCI.
  • this type of interference may produce a received signal-to-interference ratio (S/I) at the uplink base station that results in a dropped packet.
  • S/I received signal-to-interference ratio
  • Mixed CCI generally does not arise in properly-synchronized TDMA/TDD and TDMA/TDD/SAD systems.
  • TDMA/TDD and TDMA/TDD/SAD systems can exhibit "regular" CCI arising from, for example, interference between two different downlink signals or between two different uplink signals in neighboring FR cells. If mixed CCI is controlled or eliminated, the remaining regular CCI in an STDD system would generally be no greater than that in conventional TDMA/TDD and TDMA/TDD/SAD systems.
  • FIG. 6 shows an alternative STDD frame 601.
  • the frame 601 includes uplink and downlink control sections 605, 607 and uplink and downlink information sections 610, 615.
  • the STDD frame 601 also includes a group of shared slots 620.
  • the shared slots 620 represent a subset of the total information transmission slots available in the frame 601.
  • the uplink and downlink sections 610, 615 contain slots which are permanently allocated to uplink and downlink information transmission, respectively.
  • frame 601 is illustrated as an embodiment in which the number of unused slots A is equal to zero, other embodiments could include values of A greater than zero. Sections 610, 615 are thus similar to the sections 310, 315 in frame 301 of FIG. 3 .
  • the shared slots 620 are dynamically allocated between uplink and downlink transmission in accordance with demand, in a manner similar to the allocation of slots in sections 410 and 415 of FIG. 4 .
  • This alternative STDD technique is referred to herein as partially-shared time-division duplexing (PSTDD). Because only a subset of the available slots are dynamically allocated, the potential for mixed CCI is reduced.
  • the fraction of total available information slots which are shared is designated by a partial sharing factor ⁇ and different PSTDD techniques may therefore be referred to as PSTDD( ⁇ ) techniques.
  • PSTDD( ⁇ ) In a PSTDD( ⁇ ) system with a total of S information slots, there are (S/2)(1- ⁇ ) slots available only to the uplink users, (S/2)(1- ⁇ ) slots available only to the downlink users and the remaining S ⁇ slots are shared among uplink and downlink users according to demand.
  • PSTDD systems with partial sharing factors ⁇ of about 15% to 25% exhibit packet-dropping rates similar to those of corresponding STDD systems, but can provide a reduction in mixed CCI.
  • Other partial sharing factors ⁇ could also be used.
  • a packet refers to a quantity of information to be communicated during a given frame slot, and may represent information to be transmitted on a downlink from a base station to a user or on an uplink from a user to a base station.
  • a TDMA system which requires a low throughput delay may drop a packet if a user is unable to obtain an available slot in the frame in which the packet was generated. Periods of high demand may, for example, cause several packets generated by the same user to be dropped in succession. It is therefore preferable to provide not only a low packet dropping rate for all users but also a minimal "run" of successive dropped packets experienced by any given user.
  • the latter is referred to as the dropped packet runlength and is defined herein as the number of successive frames in which a particular user experiences a dropped-packet.
  • the present invention provides techniques for reducing dropped packet runlength using circular interleaving and/or fast speech activity detection (FSAD), thereby improving system capacity.
  • FSAD fast speech activity detection
  • FIG. 7 shows a six-state Markov model 700 corresponding to on-off conversation between a pair of users.
  • the model is described in P.T. Brady, "A Model for generating on-off speech patterns in two-way conversations," Bell Syst. Tech. Journal, Vol. 48, pp. 2445-2472, September 1969 .
  • the six states 1 through 6 are designated in FIG. 7 as TS, TT1, TT2, ST, SS1 and SS2 depending upon whether the first and second users are talking (T) or silent (S).
  • State SS therefore corresponds to a situation in which both users are silent while states TT1 and TT2 correspond to situations in which both users are talking.
  • States TS, TT1, TT2 and ST are referred to generally herein as talk states because in those states at least one of the users is talking.
  • the time-averaged distribution of the number of required slots in a TDD or STDD system may be used by those skilled in the art to obtain expressions for the average probability of dropping a packet. Even in a system with a packet dropping rate on the order of 0.01%, the conditional probability that a packet is dropped in a particular frame given that one or more packets were dropped in the preceding frame may remain large, resulting in an unacceptably long dropped packet runlength.
  • a queue formed by the users whose requests cannot be accommodated by available slots is referred to herein as a blocked queue.
  • the blocked queue can also be viewed as a waiting portion of a larger queue, where the larger queue includes both blocked users and users with assigned slots.
  • a user experiencing dropped packets waits until one or more preceding users in the blocked queue exit a talking state.
  • the length of time which it takes a user in the blocked queue to be accommodated by the system is designated by a random variable L, and represents the cumulative duration of consecutive frames for which the user remains blocked, that is, the dropped-packet runlength.
  • L generally depends on the position of the user in the blocked queue as well as the manner in which the preceding users in the queue are accommodated.
  • the probability distribution of L generally depends on the number of slots S, the number of user pairs N and the type of duplexing technique that is used, and can be estimated and/or computed in an known manner using techniques based on the Brady model.
  • the standard deviation of L often remains unacceptably high. For example, dropped packet runlengths of as much as 100 or 200 frames may be observed in a system with a 2 ms frame duration. A user who experiences a dropped packet could therefore be completely blocked for a considerably long period of time.
  • the present invention alleviates this problem by ensuring that dropped packets are substantially distributed among all users over the frames in which drops occur. As a result, even during long periods of dropped packets the dropped-packet runlength for any particular user can still be of relatively short duration.
  • circular interleaving is used to periodically shift user slot assignments by one or more slots after each frame. For example, even assuming no users exit or enter a talk state in a given frame and therefore slot assignments would otherwise remain the same, each user could still be directed to transmit its packet one or more slots earlier in the following frame. A number of exceptions could be made to this alteration in slot assignment. For example, a user first blocked in the preceding frame may be permitted to transmit in the same slot in the following frame, since that user would not yet be experiencing a long dropped-packet runlength. Another exception could be made for a user that pays an additional service fee in order to continuously maintain possession of a particular slot previously allocated to that user. Payment of the additional fee can thus provide certain users with a significantly lower packet dropping rate and thereby higher quality communication.
  • FIGS. 8A and 8B illustrate the operation of an exemplary circular interleaver.
  • the single circular interleaver shown can be used for either uplink or downlink slots.
  • the following will assume that the circular interleaver is used for uplink slots.
  • FIG. 8A shows allocation of a group of four available uplink time slots 800 to a number of uplink users during a frame n-1. The uplink users A, B, C and D have been allocated slots. In this example, the uplink slot demand is greater than the number of available uplink slots so users E and F wait in a blocked queue 810.
  • FIG. 8B shows the allocation of the four uplink time slots 800 during the next time frame n in which user C exits a talking state and users G and H enter a talking state.
  • Users A, B, E, F, G and H are active in frame n and require uplink slots in which to communicate information, while user C is no longer active and does not require a slot. Again, only the four uplink slots 800 are available. Users G, H and A therefore enter a blocked queue 820. Users B and D are then allocated different time slots than those which were allocated to B and D in frame n-1. Users E and F exit the blocked queue 810 of FIG. 8A and are allocated slots in the group of available slots 800. It can be seen from FIGS. 8A and 8B that the users which were blocked in a given frame n-1, such as users E and F, are allocated slots in the next frame n.
  • Blocked queues 810 and 820 operate as first-in, first-out (FIFO) queues in this example, but other queuing techniques could also be used.
  • FIFO first-in, first-out
  • the circular interleaver of FIGS. 8A and 8B can be implemented as a set of memory locations in which user identifiers are stored during each frame.
  • the position of a particular user identifier in the memory can indicate the uplink or downlink slot assigned to that user in the current frame, or the position of that user in a blocked queue.
  • the blocked queues 810, 820 and available slots 800 thus represent memory storage locations for particular user identifiers.
  • Blocked queue 810 or 820 and available slots 800 could be a waiting portion and an available slot portion, respectively, of a single queue.
  • the waiting portion and available slot portion may be implemented as memory locations storing user identifiers.
  • the position of the users in the single queue are rotated, using appropriate control processing, in the manner previously described.
  • the users A, B, D and E of FIGS. 8A and 8B could have been assigned the slots in the group of available slots 800 and user F would have experienced dropped packets for two consecutive frames.
  • the dropped packets are spread across users such that users A, E and F each experience a dropped packet for only one frame. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that this circular interleaving can be readily applied in any of a number of different TDMA communication systems, including both TDD/SAD and STDD systems.
  • the circular interleaving of the present invention does not significantly increase throughput delay, nor does it require complex computational operations.
  • circular interleaving provides a reduced maximum number of packets dropped per user which can be approximated as: L ( n u - S / 2 ) / n u .
  • L n u - S / 2
  • n u the maximum number of packets dropped per user is reduced by a factor of n s .
  • Circular interleaving thus provides considerable improvement in terms of system robustness to dropped packets.
  • An exemplary TDD/SAD system in accordance with the present invention utilizes two circular interleavers of the type shown in FIGS. 8A and 8B , one for uplink packets and one for downlink packets.
  • each circular interleaver may be implemented as a single queue which directs the interleaving of available uplink or downlink slots, respectively.
  • FIGS. 9A and 9B show an exemplary implementation of separate circular interleavers for uplink and downlink.
  • FIG. 9A corresponds to a situation in which the number of required uplink slots U S and the number of required downlink slots D S are both greater than or equal to S/2, where S is the total number of available slots.
  • a downlink queue includes an available slot portion 900 of length S/2 and a waiting portion 905 of length D S - S/2.
  • An uplink queue includes an available slot portion 910 of length S/2 and a waiting portion 915 of length U S - S/2.
  • the uplink and downlink queues provide circular interleaving of uplink and downlink users, respectively, in a manner similar to that previously described in conjunction with FIGS. 8A and 8B . Again, the queues may be implemented as a set of memory locations along with appropriate control processing.
  • FIG. 9A is also illustrative of the operation for an exemplary TDD/SAD system with uplink an downlink circular interleaving.
  • FIG. 9B shows separate uplink and downlink circular interleavers in a situation in which D S is less than or equal to S/2, U S is greater than S/2, and D S + U S is greater than S.
  • a downlink queue includes an available slot portion 920 of length D S . Because all downlink users are assigned slots, the downlink queue does not include a waiting portion.
  • An uplink queue includes an available slot portion 930 of length S - D S and a waiting portion 935 of length U S + D S - S.
  • the uplink and downlink queues provide circular interleaving by, for example, storing and shifting user identifiers in the manner previously described.
  • FIGS. 9A and 9B may be suitably modified to cover other situations.
  • n u denotes the number of uplink packets generated during a given frame
  • n d denotes the number of downlink packets generated during the given frame
  • the average number of packets dropped per user in a case in which a total of L packets are dropped is approximately: L ( n u + n d - S ) / ( n u + n d ) .
  • the circular interleaving of allocated time slots could be used in conjunction with co-channel interference reduction techniques such as those described in the above-cited U.S. Patent Application Serial No. 08/364579 . It should also be noted that the use of circular interleaving to reduce maximum runlengths permits waveform substitution techniques to be used to improve speech recovery. Additional detail regarding waveform substitution may be found in, for example, D.J. Goodman, G.B. Lockhart, O.J. Wasem and W.C. Wong, "Waveform substitution techniques for recovering missing speech segment in packet voice communications," IEEE Trans. on Communications, Vol. 33, pp. 801-808, August 1985 .
  • Waveform substitution is generally not suitable for use in TDMA systems which do not utilize circular interleaving and therefore exhibit excessive dropped-packet runlengths.
  • Other techniques which may be used to improve speech recovery include, for example, interpolation and prediction.
  • FSAD fast speech activity detection
  • the present invention can utilize FSAD to further increase TDD or STDD system capacity beyond what is achievable with conventional slow speech activity detection (SAD) techniques.
  • SAD slow speech activity detection
  • the six-state Markov model 700 shown in FIG. 7 can be modified to account for FSAD by partitioning each talk state of the model 700 into substa-tes. A user can be characterized as moving through these substates while the user is within the corresponding talk state.
  • FSAD involves partitioning at least two distinct groups of states in the model 700 into substates. The first group includes states TS and ST and the second group includes states TT1 and TT2.
  • FIGS. 10A and 10B illustrate an exemplary partitioning of the first and second groups, respectively, into substates.
  • the substates are identified as either mini-talk (MT) or mini-silence (MS) states within the particular talk state of a user.
  • FIG. 10A indicates that a state TS can be divided into two states MT-S and MS-S, in which the first user is in either an MT or MS state while the other user is silent.
  • the state TS can be exited from either the MT-S state or the MS-S state and when the user is in the TS state the conversation can be characterized as being in either state MT-S or MS-S.
  • a similar division into substates is used for the state ST.
  • a state TT in which both users are talking at the same time can be divided into four different substates designated MT-MS, MT-MT, MS-MS and MS-MT.
  • This division is used for both states TT1 and TT2 of the FIG. 7 model.
  • the division into substates in this example thus yields a total of 14 substates which may be written as follows: ⁇ 1 A , 1 B ⁇ , ⁇ 2 A , 2 B , 2 C , 2 D ⁇ , ⁇ 3 A , 3 B , 3 C , 3 D ⁇ , ⁇ 4 ⁇ , ⁇ 5 ⁇ , ⁇ 6 A , 6 B ⁇ . Numbers 1 to 6 correspond to the six states shown in FIG. 7 .
  • the subscript A designates the MT-S substate in states TS and ST of FIG. 7 and the MT-MT substate in states TT1 and TT2.
  • the subscripts B, C and D designate the substates MS-MT, MT-MS and MS-MS, respectively, in states TT1 and TT2.
  • the two silence states SS1 and SS2 are not divided into substates.
  • a stationary probability distribution can be developed for this FSAD model by estimating a probability for each of the 14 substates. The calculations involved in compiling such a distribution are well within the ordinary skill in the art and are therefore not further described herein.
  • FIG. 11 shows an exemplary model which may be used to estimate the dropped-packet runlength reduction produced using FSAD in an STDD system.
  • the model of FIG. 11 indicates that a user in any given mini-talk state MT will eventually exit that state with probability P TS to enter either a silence state S or mini-silence state MS.
  • This simplified model is illustrative of the runlengths which will be observed in an actual FSAD system because the jumps from a mini-talk state to a mini-silence state generally occur much more frequently than jumps from one main state to another.
  • a conditional dropped-packet runlength distribution can also be obtained in this case.
  • the value chosen for P TS may be the minimum among all one-step transition probabilities from a mini-talk state to any silence or mini-silence state, as determined in accordance with the stationary probability distribution noted above. This results in an upper bound to the actual cumulative distribution for the runlength of dropped packets.
  • the expected value of L for a user entering the blocked queue in the first position for a system with 40 information slots and a frame duration of 2 ms, is on the order of 12 ms for a TDD system and about 7 ms for an STDD system. The details of the computation will be apparent to those skilled in the art and are therefore omitted.
  • STDD is thus superior to TDD in robustness to dropped-packet runlength for a given dropping rate when using FSAD.
  • FSAD randomly spreads dropped packets among users.
  • each user generally passes between an MT and an MS state very frequently within a given talk state.
  • FSAD therefore effectively performs additional randomizing of user slot allocation which further decreases the runlength of dropped packets.
  • a runlength experienced by a particular user may become arbitrarily long. It is therefore preferable to use the circular interleaving of the present invention in conjunction with FSAD.
  • the decision to use circular interleaving with or without FSAD may involve a tradeoff between minimized runlength and the increased system processing complexity which generally accompanies the use of FSAD.
  • other types of speech activity detection could also be used, including techniques operating at any suitable detection rate.
  • FIG. 12 shows an exemplary communication system 1200.
  • the system 1200 includes a speech coder 1204 which processes a baseband input from, for example, a public telephone line connected to a base station in a cellular system.
  • the coded speech is applied to a channel coder 1208.
  • the output of the channel coder represents information packets to be transmitted to users from the base station.
  • a channel interleaver 1212 randomly interleaves packets in a manner well-known in the art in order to mitigate the effects of, for example, channel fading. It should be noted that channel interleaving, unlike the above-described circular interleaving of the present invention, generally does not reduce dropped-packet runlengths.
  • the circular interleaving is performed in this embodiment using a processor 1244 which includes memory storage locations and implements queues such as those described in conjunction with FIGS. 8A, 8B, 9A and 9B .
  • the circular interleaving may utilize control information to identify users, and is suitable for use in systems with control information duty cycles K ⁇ 1. Those skilled in the art can readily determine suitable adjustments in the arrangement and/or processing of the control information for systems in which K > 1.
  • the packets are modulated onto one or more carrier signals in modulator 1214 and supplied to an RF processor 1220 and an antenna 1224.
  • the antenna 1224 may be an omnidirectional antenna suitable for communicating with a number of different mobile users in a particular cell of a cellular system.
  • the system 1200 also receives signals from the users via antenna 1224 and RF processor 1220.
  • the received signals are demodulated in demodulator 1228.
  • the demodulated packets are then processed in a channel deinterleaver 1232 such that previously-applied channel interleaving is removed and the positioning of a packet in a given time frame is compatible with the decoding applied by a channel decoder 1236.
  • a speech decoder 1240 converts the received information into a baseband output which may be supplied to a telephone line in the public telephone network.
  • a processor 1244 directs the operation of, for example, elements 1204-1214 and 1228-1240 or subsets thereof, and in other embodiments one or more of these elements may be partially or entirely incorporated within the processor 1244.
  • the processor 1244 may be implemented as a computer, microprocessor, application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or any other suitable arrangement of hardware, software or firmware.
  • the processor 1244 includes a memory with a number of storage locations suitable for storing, for example, user identifiers. The processor 1244 then provides circular interleaving by using the memory to implement one or more queues in the manner described above in conjunction with FIGS.
  • the processor 1244 controls the shifting or other movement of user identifiers within the queues such that users blocked in one frame are provided a priority in slot allocation in a subsequent frame. In other embodiments, the processor could interact with an external memory unit to control circular interleaving.
  • the processor 1244 may also be utilized to implement the above-described FSAD technique by detecting MS and MT substates in the voice signals and then organizing and allocating packets accordingly. The details regarding implementation of FSAD in a cellular system are generally well-known in the art and will therefore not be further described herein.
  • the system 1200 is illustrated as processing baseband voice signals and utilizing channel coding and interleaving, it should be emphasized that this is not by way of limitation.
  • the present invention is suitable for use in systems which communicate any type of data and in systems which do not utilize channel coding and/ or interleaving.
  • Channel coding/decoding and interleaving/deinterleaving generally randomize a communication channel and thereby mitigate the effects of, for example, channel fading. However, this usually comes at the expense of increased total delay.
  • a preferred embodiment of the invention therefore eliminates channel coding and channel interleaving and utilizes any of a number of well-known space diversity techniques to control channel fading.
  • FIG. 13 is a flow chart illustrating circular interleaving.
  • Decision step 1302 indicates that when a given user enters an active state by, for example, initiating a conversation, a queue position is assigned to that user in step 1306. A user identifier corresponding to that user is then stored in a queue in step 1308.
  • the circular interleaver includes both an uplink queue and a downlink queue, each with an allocated slot portion and a waiting portion, as described in conjunction with FIGS. 9A and 9B above.
  • a reference to a queue in conjunction with FIG. 13 should therefore be understood to refer to either the uplink or downlink queue, depending on whether the given user is communicating on an uplink or a downlink.
  • decision step 1312 an attempt is made to allocate a time slot in the current frame to the user. If the slot is allocated in step 1312, communication with the user can take place in the allocated slot as shown in step 1316. Decision step 1322 indicates that if the same user does not remain active during the next frame, any previously-allocated slot is returned to a pool of unused slots as shown in step 1324. The process then returns to step 1302 and remains there until the inactive user reenters an active state. If the user remains active in step 1322, the queue position assigned to the user is updated based on the above-described circular interleaving as shown in step 1328. For example, assume user A in FIG. 8A was allocated the first frame time slot, corresponding to a first queue position in frame n-1.
  • Step 1330 indicates that the updated queue position for the user is stored in the form of a user identifier.
  • the process then returns to step 1312 to attempt to allocate a slot in the next frame to that user.
  • the steps shown are repeated for multiple users in each frame, and from frame to frame, in accordance with the circular interleaving described above.
  • the queue may be maintained in, for example, processor 1244 of FIG. 12 , and may be implemented in random-access memory, cache memory, or other types of electronic or magnetic memory.
  • the steps shown in FIG. 13 provide the circular interleaving by, for example, keeping track of which slots have been previously allocated to users and shifting or otherwise altering the slots allocated to any of these users which remain active in the next frame.
  • a user which is assigned a slot in a first slot position in the current frame can be shifted out of that position and placed at the end of a blocked queue, or in a waiting portion of a single uplink or downlink queue, during a subsequent frame. This can occur if, for example, there are other user identifiers stored in the blocked queue or waiting portion of a queue, all available slots in the subsequent frame are allocated to other users, and the user previously assigned the first slot position remains active.
  • the interleaving techniques may be described as providing a slot allocation priority to a previously-blocked user.
  • Circular interleaving is only one possible technique for providing the priority.
  • Other techniques include applying any of a number of alternative permutations to the slot allocation order such that the risk of dropped packets are spread over a larger number of users.
  • Additional alternatives include applying circular interleaving to only a subset of the active users in a given frame, or allowing one or more users to maintain possession of a particular slot over a number of frames. It should be noted that it is not necessary to store an identifier corresponding to a previously-blocked user. For example, by altering slot assignments before or after allocation such that a user assigned the first slot position is not automatically assigned that same slot in a subsequent frame, but instead must compete with all other users for another slot in the frame, a priority is in effect provided to a previously-blocked user.
  • a time slot allocated to a user represents one of a number of available carrier frequencies.
  • the term "frame slot" as used herein is therefore intended to include, for example, both time slots and frequency slots.
  • the circular interleaving or, more generally, slot allocation permutation of the present invention is then applied to the various FDM carrier frequencies, in a manner similar to that described above.
  • a user which is blocked in one frame, and therefore is not allocated a carrier frequency receives a priority in allocation in the subsequent frame.
  • the present invention may also be implemented in a code division system. Those skilled in the art can readily adapt the teachings herein to implement a wide variety of different time division, frequency division and code division systems.

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  1. Verfahren zum Zuteilen von Aufwärts- und Abwärtsschlitzen in einem Kommunikationssystem, in dem aktive Benutzer Informationen in zugeteilten Schlitzen eines Rahmens übermitteln, um sicherzustellen, daß Verlustpakete im wesentlichen unter allen Benutzern über den Rahmen verteilt werden, in dem Verluste eintreten, mit folgenden Schritten:
    Zuteilen von Schlitzen in einem gegebenen Rahmen zu einer ersten Menge der aktiven Benutzer;
    Identifizieren einer zweiten Menge der aktiven Benutzer, denen kein Schlitz im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilt ist; und
    Erteilen einer Priorität beim Erhalten eines zugeteilten Schlitzes im nachfolgenden Rahmen für mindestens einen der aktiven Benutzer in der zweiten Menge, die in einem nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, mit folgenden Schritten:
    Identifizieren einer Schlitzposition des im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilten Schlitzes für einen bestimmten aktiven Benutzer in der ersten Menge;
    Bestimmen, ob der bestimmte Benutzer im nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt; und
    Zuteilen eines Schlitzes mit einer anderen Schlitzposition zu dem bestimmten aktiven Benutzer im nachfolgenden Rahmen.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Schritt des Erteilens der Priorität das Zuteilen von Schlitzen im nachfolgenden Rahmen gemäß einer kreisförmigen Verschachtelung derjenigen Benutzer in den ersten und zweiten Mengen umfaßt, die im nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv werden, selbst bei Annahme, daß im nachfolgenden Rahmen keine Benutzer aus einem Gesprächszustand austreten oder in einen Gesprächszustand eintreten.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der Schritt des Zuteilens von Schlitzen in einem gegebenen Rahmen zu einer ersten Menge aktiver Benutzer das dynamische Zuteilen mindestens eines Teils der Schlitze zur Aufwärts- und Abwärtskommunikation nach Bedarf von den Benutzern umfaßt.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Informationen Sprachinformationen sind und das Verfahren den Schritt des Organisierens der Sprachinformationen in Schlitze unter Verwendung eines Sprachaktivitätserkennungsverfahrens umfaßt, das Minigesprächs- und Mini-Sprachpausezustände in den Sprachinformationen identifiziert.
  6. Vorrichtung zum Zuteilen von Aufwärts- und Abwärtsschlitzen in einem Kommunikationssystem, in dem aktive Benutzer Informationen in zugeteilten Schlitzen eines Rahmens übermitteln, mit folgendem:
    Mitteln zum Zuteilen von Schlitzen in einem gegebenen Rahmen zu einer ersten Menge der aktiven Benutzer;
    Mitteln zum Identifizieren einer zweiten Menge der aktiven Benutzer, denen kein Schlitz im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilt wird; und
    Mitteln zum Erteilen einer Priorität beim Erhalten eines zugeteilten Schlitzes im nachfolgenden Rahmen für mindestens einen der aktiven Benutzer in der zweiten Menge, die in einem nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt.
  7. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, mit folgendem:
    Mitteln zum Identifizieren einer Schlitzposition des im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilten Schlitzes für einen bestimmten aktiven Benutzer in der ersten Menge; und
    Mitteln zum Bestimmen, ob der bestimmte Benutzer im nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt, so daß dem bestimmten aktiven Benutzer eine andere Schlitzposition im nachfolgenden Rahmen zugeteilt werden kann.
  8. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, wobei die Mittel zum Erteilen einer Priorität für mindestens einen der zweiten Menge von Benutzern, die in einem nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt, einen kreisförmigen Verschachteler zum Ändern von Schlitzzuteilungen im nachfolgenden Rahmen umfaßt, so daß mindestens einem Benutzer in der zweiten Menge vor mindestens einem der Benutzer in der ersten Menge ein Schlitz im nachfolgenden Rahmen zugeteilt wird.
  9. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 8, wobei der kreisförmige Verschachteler Schlitzzuteilungen im nachfolgenden Rahmen so ändert, daß eine einem aktiven Benutzer in der ersten Menge zugeteilte Schlitzposition im nachfolgenden Rahmen um mindestens eine Schlitzposition bezüglich der vorher zugeteilten Schlitzposition im gegebenen Rahmen verschoben wird.
  10. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, wobei das Kommunikationssystem ein teilweise geteiltes Zeitduplexsystem ist und die Mittel zum Zuteilen von Schlitzen in einem gegebenen Rahmen zu der ersten Menge aktiver Benutzer einen Prozessor zum dynamischen Zuteilen mindestens eines Teils der Schlitze für Aufwärts- und Abwärtskommunikation nach Benutzerbedarf umfaßt.
  11. Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, wobei die Informationen Sprachinformationen sind und die Vorrichtung einen Sprachaktivitätsdetektor zum Organisieren der Sprachinformationen in Schlitze durch Identifizieren von Mini-Gesprächs- und Mini-Sprachpausenzuständen in den Informationen umfaßt.
  12. Kommunikationssystem mit folgendem:
    einen Prozessor zum Zuteilen von Aufwärts- und Abwärtsschlitzen in einem Rahmen zu aktiven Benutzern, die die Schlitze zum Übermitteln von Informationen in dem System erfordern; und
    Mitteln zum Ändern von Schlitzpositionen der den aktiven Benutzern zugeteilten Schlitze, wenn diese Benutzer in einem nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleiben, wobei die Mittel zum Ändern von Schlitzpositionen folgendes enthalten:
    einen Speicher zum Speichern von Benutzerkennungen aktiver Benutzer, denen kein Schlitz im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilt ist; und
    an den Speicher angekoppelte kreisförmige Verschachtelungsmittel zum Implementieren im nachfolgenden Rahmen einer kreisförmigen Verschachtelung aktiver Benutzer mit im Speicher gespeicherten Kennungen und aktiver Benutzer, denen Schlitze vorher im gegebenen Rahmen zugeteilt wurden.
  13. System nach Anspruch 12, wobei die Verschachtelungsmittel das Verschieben einer Schlitzposition eines aktiven Benutzers, dem ein Schlitz im gegebenen Rahmen zugewiesen wurde, um mindestens eine Schlitzposition im nachfolgenden Rahmen, vorausgesetzt, daß der Benutzer im nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt.
  14. System nach Anspruch 12, wobei die Verschachtelungsmittel aktiven Benutzern zugeteilte Schlitzpositionen so ändern, daß einem ersten Benutzer, dem ein Schlitz in einem gegebenen Rahmen zugewiesen ist, kein Schlitz in einem nachfolgenden Rahmen zugewiesen wird, wenn ein zweiter Benutzer, dem kein Schlitz im vorhergehenden Rahmen zugewiesen wurde, im nachfolgenden Rahmen aktiv bleibt, und alle anderen verfügbaren Schlitze anderen aktiven Benutzern zugeteilt werden.
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